"Then I saw the two of them coming out of the house so I said 'you need to get out of there and come over here,'" Cornish said. "So I just grabbed them and brought them over to my place."

The elderly couple who lives there, Michelle Turcotte Loro and her husband Larry Loro, were next door when firefighters arrived and were being checked out for smoke inhalation, Gonzalez said.

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"They can barely walk. As soon as I saw them coming out, I took them over to my house, set them down, tried to calm them down. She was extremely distraught, crying afraid that the cats were in there," Cornish said.

Cornish said his neighbors had some old fans plugged in upstairs and investigators said that may have been what sparked the fire.

"It appears to be electrical in nature and the fire was put out in approximately 10 minutes," said Chris Welling, with the Davie Fire Department.

According to Cornish, the couple said a recent building inspection may have helped save their lives.